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Selecting and Positioning Lighting Fixtures

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Selecting Lighting Fixtures Skillful application of lighting and selection of lighting fixtures can, more than any other element in the architectural environment, affect the experience of the viewer. Lighting fixtures themselves can be used to dramatize elements of interior design – line, form, color, pattern, and texture. Higher levels of lighting produce cheerful effects and […]

How Lighting Affects Emotions

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Lighting In Our Lives Home lighting fixtures as decoration is basic and scientific. A home has fundamental lighting needs. Restaurants hire lighting experts to advise them how to enhance the atmosphere, creating indirect lighting that pinpoints objects to highlight flowers in subdue ways, so you feel they are luminescent, emulating your experience of them in […]

Lighting and Color

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Where Lighting Meets Color Without the light color does not exist. A major consideration in planning the color scheme for a home is the study of quantity and quality of light and the methods of lighting. The level of illumination affects the appearance of a color. When the home lighting is bright color can be […]

Lighting and Shape

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Lighting to Define More than any other single home design element, lighting gives form and shape to space. The way we see the shape of an object depends on the brightness of its specific parts and its shadows distribution. This is means that lighting can manipulate the visual shape of an object. Lighting can make […]

Lighting and Space

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Lighting fixtures bring your home interior to life. Lighting gives form and texture to a room, warms the dark corners, highlights a favorite piece of art, or creates a right mood. Changing the brightness of light that reflects from the floor, wall, and ceiling, has an effect on our visual perception of space proportions. That […]

Points of View on Lighting Fixtures

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There are two opposite point of views on the role of lighting fixtures in home design exists. The first point is tightly connected with prioritizing a functional element in design and architecture. Followers of this point of view are sure that lighting fixtures have to be purely practical, barely visible, and not decorative. They believe […]

Balanced Home Lighting

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A well-balanced lighting scheme is made up of three key lighting types: a flattering general light, task lighting that performs a functional purpose, and feature lighting that can put displayed objects in the spotlight. It is the use of a variety of lighting sources at different intensities that gives a home define character. The quality […]

Adding Touches Of Elegance with Pedestals

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Whether decorative pedestals for the home are simply designed or elegantly crafted from materials like Valencia marble, solid carved woos, and gold leaf, they add a uniquely classical and elegant touch to any decor. Pedestals give a room that unusual and visually inviting appearance that is always so beautiful to look at, along with being […]

Choosing The Right Furniture

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Most people associate comfortable furniture with soft cushions and pillows, but there is another dimension to comfort that involves emotional comfort as well as physical solace. Look around some beautiful houses. Other than the upholstered furniture – sofas, love seats, chairs, and ottomans – most of the furniture will be direct, firm, softened only by […]

Not Your Average Bookcases

Cambridge bookcase features a striking library ladder, offers a multitude of large and small drawers. This bookcase designed to fit in rooms large and small. Cambridge bookcase carries solid bronze hand rubbed polished hardware; available at InvitingHome.com

As more people shift from working in an office to working at home, the necessity of creating a useful working space without taking away from the comfort of the home becomes more apparent. A home office should not merely be a utilitarian room carved out of the home, it should a comfortable and welcoming space […]

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